What We Know About the Acreman Surname

Clerks wrote Ackerman in many ways, and Acreman is one that stuck. In origin, the name means “One who plowed the lord's land and tended his plow teams”.

• The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Acreman with 382 bearers, at rank 54,055. That puts it inside the top 100,000 US surnames.
• Other spellings include Akkerman.
• Records show Acreman as one of the forms Ackerman took over time.
• Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.

Heraldry and the Acreman name

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Acreman, so the heraldry linked to Ackerman is a starting point, not an automatic right. Research your Acreman family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.